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by fsociety999 1191 days ago
I used AltStore for a while, but it’s kind of a mess. The project is not super well maintained, it’s buggy, it doesn’t recognize paid developer certificates if your paid account is linked to a business, it requires a Mail.app plugin to run, etc.

There is a community developed fork now called sidestore, which seems to work much better in my limited experience trying it out.

It still requires a bit of setup and you have to set up a VPN client on your device in order to install an app, but it seems more reliable to me.

https://sidestore.io/

I’m hopeful that Apple will allow sideloading apps directly in iOS 17 to comply with new EU regulations, but I guess we will see.